Notice Trail Blazers willing to trade 1st round draft picks to shed salary

Trading assets to fix Olshey's massive overpays. Typically, someone would lose their job for that.

 

He got the Cleveland asset... sooo

 

And more importantly got us the Nurkic asset, which should be considered.

 

This is hyperpresumptuous. Let's just wait until something happens.

 

Yes but at the press conference, the pick was what he seemed most excited about. Also, Olshey had to make a trade. If Plumlee wasn't in the last year of his contract, I doubt we would have Nurkic now.

 

Dont forget the vocal group of posters here that were arguing that it was "better to match Crabbe's contract than to loose him for nothing"...
Well, not it looks like we are going to PAY for the privilege of moving him.

 

It's all hearsay but if it turns out to be true and we move assets to make up for his incompetence then he should lose his job

 

I dont think he deserves much credit for that. Dumb fucking luck should not be how we measure front office personnel.

 

I've been a huge Olshey apologist over his tenure, but if he uses our assets to fix his own mistakes, I'd be cool looking for another GM. We are so far away from competing with Golden State that if we used our picks to lower our team salary, there goes any realistic hope of improving.

 

This is the most obvious rumor I've ever seen. Of course we need to shed salary! And wasn't this already reported a few weeks ago?

 

All the stuff I heard was that PA was the one that was unwilling to lose assets for nothing - so I am not certain this is a NO "mistake". Crabbe was forced on him. You could argue that he overpaid ET and ML - but I am not certain this is true for ET - and with ML you just pay for potential.

 

I don't see a problem at all....if you can trade away Leonard and Crabbe's contracts and it costs you one pick...plus you don't know if he'll get a player back in the deal...if he does....it's not going to be that hard replacing Crabbe or Leonard.

 

So we are supposed to believe that NO, who is pretty famous for not leaking anything, has leaked something for a sports writer who pretty the last stuff he has tweeted and written about is more conjecture then anything and is also a sports writer who has never been the first to report anything his entire career. I'm going to say this is more just assumptions then anything on his part.

 

What if Olshey takes a swing at his boy Porzingis? Knicks are dumb, who knows. I would've laughed if you told me were gonna get Nurkic and a first for plumlee, and Denver actually has a good GM. Obviously Porzingis is another story, but so are the Knicks.

 

Again, no point in trading out salary while attaching picks unless you're either A) Creating cap space to sign free agents or B) Really valuing what you're getting back.
To create cap space, I would try: Turner, Meyers, and #15 or #20 for O'Quinn and #45.

In free agency, I'd offer BKN Crabbe and Harkless for future 2nd round picks (restock the cabinet),
Then I'd offer #15/#20 & #26 for Crowder ((after BOS signs/trades for an all-star SF)). Trade Aminu to ORL for a future 2nd.

The additions of O'Quinn and Crowder adds two 27 year olds that play good defense and make a combined $10M.

That leaves us with:
Lillard / McCollum
McCollum / ?
Crowder / ?
Vonleh / Davis
Nurkic / O'Quinn

As well as $20M in cap space. I'd pursue Holiday as a 3rd guard for $20M, or guys like Tyreke Evans, Thabo Sefelosha, etc.

 

I'm for anything that makes room to acquire and keep Paul George.

Otherwise: Not so much.